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BENJAMIN F. BELLOVVS, OF CLEVELAND, OI-IIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO ELECTRIC COMPOSITOR COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEWV JERSEY.

JU'STIFYING MECHANISM.

Patented Aug. 22, 1905.

Application filed July 11, 1904. Serial No. 216,042.

To all whom, it Ina/y concern.-

Be it known that I. BENJAMIN F. BELLOWS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Justifying Mechanism, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention is intended for use in connection with a machine which assembles lines of matrices or type for the purpose of justifying said lines. It resembles the invention disclosed in my prior patent, No. 727,267, in that the spacers are released from their several magazines by the upward movementof a selecting-plate carrying a plurality of escapementoperating pins, which plate is moved as a line is assembled in two horizontal directions to bring pins thereon beneath the proper escapement, and that the said spacers when released are conveyed by tubes and delivered into the line, thereby justifying it.

The primary objects of the improvement are to produce properly coordinated and synchronized movements of the said selecting-plate and the spacer-assembling tubes without relying upon electromagnets to furnish the motive power.

The present invention relates to the mechanism for inserting the tubes into the line and for simultaneously causing a proper movement of the selecting-plate in one direction, to the mechanism through which each increase in the length of the line causes a proportionate movement of said selecting-plate in another direction provided the line has reached justifiable length and the increase in length is due to the addition of matrices, but causes no such movement if the increase in length is due to the addition of aspacer-tube, to the means for moving this plate in the spacerreleasing direction, to the means for properly timing the action of various parts of the machine, and to the mechanism whereby all of the parts concerned in justifying a line are returned to their initial positions when they have performed their functions, all of which is shown in the drawings and hereinafter described and definitely set forth in the claims.

In the drawlngs, Figure 1 is a front elevatron of the mechanism constituting the present invention and so much of the matrix-assembling machine with which it is associated as is required to show their operative relation. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation of the mechanism adjacent to the assembling rail. Fig. 3 is a left-side elevation of the plate 93, gate 94, and the operating mechanism of said gate. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the mechanism adjacent to the assemblingrail. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the rack-slide 170 and some associated parts, the supporting-frame member being sectioned. Fig. 6 is a full size rear elevation of a portion of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1, the parts being shown in the positions they occupy after lever 61 has fallen down, but before the slide 15 has engaged with it. Fig. 7 is a rear elevation of some of the parts shown in Fig. 6, showing the parts in their normal positions, to which they are returned just after a tube has been moved forward. Fig. 8 is a top plan view of certain parts of the mechanism viewed from the rear of the machine. Fig. 9 is a top plan view, from the front of the machine, of the assembling-rail and some of the mechanism behind it, but near the assembling-point. Fig. 10 is a side elevation, partly sectioned, of the lower end of one of the spacer-assembling tubes when withdrawn behind the assembling-rail and a sectional view of some associated adjacent parts. Fig. 11 is a similar view of the same mechanism when the spacer-assembling tube has been moved forward over the assembling-rail. Fig. 12 is a sectional right end view in the plane indicated by line A A of Fig. 4. Fig. 13 is a sectional right end view in the plane indicated by line C C of Fig. 4. Fig. 14 is an elevation, partlyin section, of the clutch mechanism which is shown in Fig. 18. Fig. 15 is a bottom plan of certain parts of the mechanism, particulary the parts having to do with the insertion of the tubes into the line. Fig. 16 is a front view of that part of the built-up frame member 10 and the parts supported thereby which lie behind the line E of Fig. 13. Fig. 17 is a sectional plan of the mechanism shown in Fig. 16 in the plane indicated by line D I). Fig. 18 is a rear View of certain slides when detached from their supports. Fig. 19 is a front view of the same mechanism. Fig. 20 is a rear view of the mechanism immediatel y concerned in the operation of the v in Fig. 25.

of mechanism shown in Fig. 21, which shows the position the mechanism occupies before one begins the assembling of the matrix-line.

Fig. 22 is a sectional side elevation in the plane of line F of Fig. 20, showing the position of said mechanism when it is about to release the spacers necessary to justify the assembled line. Fig. 23 is a detached rear view of the selecting-plate. Fig. 24. is a plan view of the shaft 108 and certain associated mechanism. Fig. 25 is a sectional inside elevation of the mechanism shown in Fig. 20 and in the plane indi cated by line G of said figure. Fig. 26 is a sectional rear view of the mechanism shown I Figs. 20, 21, 24, 25, and 26 show the position the mechanism occupies just after the shaft 115 has completed its revolution, but before the wedge 91 has been drawn down to release shaft 108 from the restraining influ ence of pawls 133 and 135. Fig. 27 is a view similar to Fig. 26; but the parts are shown in the position they occupy when wedge9l has been moved down as faras possible. Fig. 28 is a bottom plan view of the driving-shaft, the clutch mechanism associated therewith, and the shafts driven by said driving-shaft, the lower part of this figure being a diagrammatic view of the circuits of the clutch-operating magnets. Fig. 29 is an enlarged plan view of one part of the selecting-plate 100, and Fig. 29 is a plan view of the other part of said plate. The two views joined at the dotted lines Q represent the entire plate.

In assembling the matrix or type lines to be justified the matrices 11 (or type) are released one by one from their magazines and are delivered onto the assembling shelf or rail 1 through an assembling-spout 2.

The spacers 3 are stored in magazines 4, each of which has a plurality of channels 5 for containing spacers of difi'erent thickn esses. Each spacer-channel has an independent escapement of some approved form, which must include an operating device, as a lever 101. The spacers released by the operation of said escapements fall onto the assembling rail through tubes 6 and supplemental tubes 7, which are connected with the lower ends of the tubes 6 by flexible devices-as, for example,ball-and-socketconnections. (SeeFig.10.) In the specific construction shown the sockets 7 are secured to the rear sides of the supplemental tubes '7, and the balls are formed on the lower ends of downwardly-extended fingers fixed to the rear sides of the tubes 6, near the lower ends of the latter. This permits the members 7, one of whose functions is to serve as temporary spaces in the matrix-line, to maintain upright positions whether they are in. said line or behind it or whether they have been moved to any permissible extent along with the line. These supplemental tubes may be moved forward over the assemblingrail so as to bein the line of assemblingmatrices, and they may also be moved along with said line of matrices until the line is completed.

The upper ends of the tubes 6 are suitably.

supported so as to permit them to move in the two directions specified. They may, for example, have outwardly-flaring upper ends, which loosely fit in the lower ends of the magazines 4:. (See Fig. 21.) The supplemental tubes 7, which have open front sides, may be drawn back out of the line after the spacers have fallen down through tubes 6 and 7 and the spacers will be left in the linebetween matrices. The supplemental tubes have rearwardly-extended feet 8, which rest upon the fixed frame member 10 and extend beneath the overhanging front edge of a slide 9, which is capable of being moved backward and for-' ward, the upper surface of said feet and the lower surface of the overhanging part of said slide being provided with transversely-extended tongues and grooves which are adapted to interlock, whereby the supplemental tubes may move independently of said slide in a path parallel with the assembling-rail, being guided in that movement by said tongues and grooves, but must accompany the slide in its rearward movement, whereby the tubes are drawn back of the line, so that they do not thereafter interfere with the movement of the matrices along rail 1.

In the particulars briefly referred to above the mechanism shown in the drawings is generically like that which is shown in my said prior patent; but it is here briefly mentioned in order that one may more readily and easily understand the present invention, which will now be described.

Besides the slide 9, which is movable forward and backward, and a slide 74, which is movable vertically and to which specific reference will be presently made. there are eight other slides, which are movable in paths parallel with the assembling-rail in suitable guideways adjacent to said rail in the frame member 10, which for convenience is built of a number of separable but rigidly-connected parts, as shown. Normally the supplemental tubes 7 are behind the assembling-rail and are closely packed between the right-hand end of the slide 9 and an upward-extended finger 13 on the tube-packingslide 14:. This slide is always under the influence of a spring 12, tending to draw it to the left. whereby said finger will press the tubes together toward the slide 9. The line-packing slide 15 is extended upward at its right end, and the packing-arm 16 is secured to this upward extension, which packing-arm overhangs the assembling-rail, and its left end is moved back and forth past the points at which the tubes are severally moved forward into the line and the matrices are de livered onto the assembling-rail. This line- 

